The Rose Water Flasks in the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum in Istanbul and Topkapi Palace Museum

Abstract

Like in other art branches, Ottoman metallic art, along with maintaining Seljuk traditions, transfers a lot of innovations to our era. Turkish metallic art has lots of rooted past. Various goods, designed according to the needs of each period, transfer the characteristic forms and decorative features of the period they belong to, to our era. Like all art branches of Ottoman Empire, metallic essays that reached to peak, present a rich variety to the collection of a lot of museums. Topkapı Palace Museum and Turkish and Islamic Essays Museum in Istanbul have the largest collections of Ottoman Metallic Essays. In these museums, four pieces of Rose Water Flask, manufactured from gold plated copper, constitute the subject of our article that we try to present. Here the physical and decorative characteristics of each essay is described in detail by us and by making comparisons and evaluations in various respects, it has been tried to identify their places in Turkish Metallic Art